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Sleep is a human right, humor anyway. As a father of six, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Leader of the House of Commons, may get little rest at home, although there - the 50-year-old is multi-millionaire - is certainly more space to retreat than in the notoriously densely populated lower house.
Also, the speech parade in the British Parliament over the past two years - almost without a break and often so extended that nightingale like larks pierced the anxious ear - certainly takes his toll: even the pursuit of these incessant Brexit debates in the livestream was without the aid of at least soft drugs as well as occasional nap actually impossible, although it lacked neither historical seriousness, at dramatic twists nor at shouting ("Order! Oooorder !!"), at tears and tumults.
That the sleep performance of Jacob Rees-Mogg on September 3 is still a demonstration of extreme contempt, there are a number of good bad reasons.
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His excellent suit, the polished shoes and cufflinks, all the equipment of the ultra-conservative - the admirer of Pope Pius IX. considers man-made climate change to be a fairy tale and gay marriage an impertinence - in fact, it can be hoped that, if not goodness or reason, courtesy is one of its dependable qualities.
A man, however, who not only knows what belongs, but went to school in the elite company Eaton College and as a son of a Life Peer learned to deal with servants in the bobby-car age, which shows in such a situation in the Parliament not just as a snob. But as the contemporary counterpart of the aristocrat of pre-democratic and colonial times, in which one behaved in the presence of servants literally shameless, showed naked or even physical needs of all kinds of course gave way: Because people who are not of their own caste, earn by birth and Position no respect.
"Punctuality is the courtesy of the kings", said the Frenchman Louis XVIII. have said. Two hundred years later, one can add: The marked nap is the contemptuous gesture of the British upper class.